A MODERN PROPHETESS

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 160, 8 July 1899, Page 6 (Supplement)

A MODERN PROPHETESS

ON THE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Mile. Couesdon, the now famous prophetess of the Hue de Paradis, in Paris, has made a prophecy concerning the future of the United States to the correspondent of the "New York Journal." She claims to be the mouthpiece of the Archangel Gabriel. Her remarks require no comment. Throughout them one notices a curious undercurrent, which cannot but amuse us on this side of the Channel. When I visited Mile. Couesdon (writes the journalist) I found her in a highly inspired and prophetic mood. I asked what she foresaw of the future of the United States. After a time she closed her eyes and said: —

It will Yiot be easy; War will come; Again it will come; It will not be easy. I see a great day coming—a great day for America;

All America, North and South, under one Government, will be united.

The great American Bepublic will stretch from pole to pole. The day is not far distant in the life of a nation.

Great statesmen will strive to bring the whole continent under the American flag. War will not be waged to bring this about.

Mexico will ask for admission to the Unite?! States after the death of President Diaz,"and it will be granted, J'> The South American countries will see the prosperity aud happiness of Mexico under the American flag.

They, too, will ask to be admitted, and their wish will be granted.

Canada will remain longest out of the Union.

America will have another great war.

It will be a greater war by far than that with Spain. It will not be with Germany, neither will it be with France.

It will be with a country that is now making loud professions of friendship for America. I cannot give you reasons. J can only tell you the things I see. •Statesmen will see clearly the wisdom of my predictions. Germans in America will never permit their Fatherland to wage war against the United States. Englishmen have no such power. It will be the most terrible war ever waged. But America will be finally triumphant. Then the American navy will be the greatest in the world. A great change will come over the United States. A time of great trouble is coming. This will be due to her rich men. The common people will remain sound and virtuous. The rich men will become corrupt, avaricious, and degraded. They will ruin themselves with their own incalculable riches.

President M'Kinley is not going to die suddenly, as did President Faure.

He will be elected President a second time.

His health will fail him during his second term.

Then a great sorrow will befall him:

A sorrow in which he will have the sympathy of friends as well as enemies.

America will have to pay the penalty of her coming glory.

She will pay with the blood of her best sons.

Her negroes will become good citi. zens. They will make splendid soldiers for her colonies.

In the middle of the next century there will be a great literary revival in America.

The language of the United States will spread from Greenland to Cape Horn.

The English language will be governed by America and not by England.

An American will reach the North Pole and another the South Pole.

Then the dominion of the United States will reach from pole to pole. The evil of divorce will at last become unbearable.

The rich will change their wives so often that they will be worse than Turks.

At last women will revolt for their own protection.

They will put an end to divorce altogether.

An American woman will lead this* crusade.

She will go down to posterity as the Jeanne d'Arc of the Western world.